This article contains spoilers for Psych.
It’s easy to forget sometimes that Psych is a show that often involves murder. The procedural comedy-drama is well known for its running gags, irreverent humor, and the absurd scenarios that faux psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday Rodriguez) and his best friend/crime-solving partner Gus (Dulé Hill) often found themselves in, all of which can overshadow the seriousness of the crimes they’re trying to solve. However, the series proves it’s worthy of the drama genre descriptor more often than we realize when it allows itself to go to darker places than we expect.
The most obvious example of this in the series is the Yin/Yang arc. Shawn and Gus go up against these serial killers several times throughout the series, and often find themselves and those they care about directly in harms’ way. Like many serial killers, Yin (Peter Weller...
It’s easy to forget sometimes that Psych is a show that often involves murder. The procedural comedy-drama is well known for its running gags, irreverent humor, and the absurd scenarios that faux psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday Rodriguez) and his best friend/crime-solving partner Gus (Dulé Hill) often found themselves in, all of which can overshadow the seriousness of the crimes they’re trying to solve. However, the series proves it’s worthy of the drama genre descriptor more often than we realize when it allows itself to go to darker places than we expect.
The most obvious example of this in the series is the Yin/Yang arc. Shawn and Gus go up against these serial killers several times throughout the series, and often find themselves and those they care about directly in harms’ way. Like many serial killers, Yin (Peter Weller...
- 5/6/2024
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
A Pisces, a Taurus, a Capricorn, a Leo, a Virgo, and an Aquarius walk into a rented mansion for their Libra friend’s birthday party. The seven college kids soon run out of booze, go poking around in places they shouldn’t, and summon a fate worse than death when they find a mysterious deck of cards harboring a hidden evil. Title card: “Tarot.” All signs… point to yikes.
Written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, Screen Gems’ latest scary movie is willfully ridiculous. It’s also the most original take on the haunted party game since last year’s well-loved “Talk to Me” with its own franchising potential as a supernatural series. If open-minded audiences buy into this transparently trendy gimmick and its melodramatic narrative execution, what feels like a spiritual “Final Destination” spinoff — told by way of an Urban Outfitters’ small gifts display — could very well...
Written and directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, Screen Gems’ latest scary movie is willfully ridiculous. It’s also the most original take on the haunted party game since last year’s well-loved “Talk to Me” with its own franchising potential as a supernatural series. If open-minded audiences buy into this transparently trendy gimmick and its melodramatic narrative execution, what feels like a spiritual “Final Destination” spinoff — told by way of an Urban Outfitters’ small gifts display — could very well...
- 5/6/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
It’s been a rough few weeks for indies but May is here with a handful of hopefuls looking to rev up the market — from A24’s buzzy I Saw The TV Glow to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Venice award-winning Evil Does Not Exist. A documentary about Anita Pallenberg featuring Scarlett Johansson hits theaters, with a French animated sci-fi set on Mars, and a Flannery O’Conner biopic by Ethan Hawke.
I Saw The TV Glow is written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair) and produced by Emma Stone under her Fruit Tree Banner. The horror-thriller that gripped Sundance (Deadline review called it a “trippy gut punch”) then SXSW follows a teenager named Owen trying to make it through life in the suburbs. The weirdness starts when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own.
I Saw The TV Glow is written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair) and produced by Emma Stone under her Fruit Tree Banner. The horror-thriller that gripped Sundance (Deadline review called it a “trippy gut punch”) then SXSW follows a teenager named Owen trying to make it through life in the suburbs. The weirdness starts when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own.
- 5/3/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Writers/Directors Spenser Cohen & Anna Halberg keep it simple with the PG-13 horror movie Tarot. Instead of a cold open to hook audiences on the horror, Tarot launches straight into introducing the group of seven friends partaking in a party weekend at an isolated manor.
It’s there that they dabble with things they shouldn’t, setting in motion a curse that will pick them off one by one, slasher style. With an equal group of monsters to match, Tarot has the makings of a breezy gateway horror movie perfect for sleepovers, though it’s undermined by surface-level characters and storytelling.
The moment the beer runs dry, forcing the friends to seek entertainment elsewhere, birthday girl Elise (Larsen Thompson) insists that Haley (Harriet Slater) puts her tarot knowledge to good use when they find a mysterious deck within the house. Haley warns that it’s extremely bad luck to borrow...
It’s there that they dabble with things they shouldn’t, setting in motion a curse that will pick them off one by one, slasher style. With an equal group of monsters to match, Tarot has the makings of a breezy gateway horror movie perfect for sleepovers, though it’s undermined by surface-level characters and storytelling.
The moment the beer runs dry, forcing the friends to seek entertainment elsewhere, birthday girl Elise (Larsen Thompson) insists that Haley (Harriet Slater) puts her tarot knowledge to good use when they find a mysterious deck within the house. Haley warns that it’s extremely bad luck to borrow...
- 5/2/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise Season 4 features a new couple named Luke Berry and Madelein Perez. The latest spinoff only has two episodes so far. However, Luke and Madelein are already facing criticism due to their age gap. Until recently, some Redditors discovered that their gap is more shocking than what it looks like. Keep reading to see why.
90 Day Fiance: Luke Berry & Madelein Perez’s Story So Far
90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise Season 4 introduced Luke as a man hoping to move to Colombia with his 19-year-old girlfriend, Madelein. But he’s unable to fulfill his goals due to his financial struggles. Despite the money issues, he continues to spoil Madelein with gifts and fund her lavish lifestyle. Some of them include paying for her apartment and buying her a dog. Some viewers also think that money may become the biggest problem for the couple due to their unhealthy lifestyle.
90 Day Fiance: Luke Berry & Madelein Perez’s Story So Far
90 Day Fiance: Love In Paradise Season 4 introduced Luke as a man hoping to move to Colombia with his 19-year-old girlfriend, Madelein. But he’s unable to fulfill his goals due to his financial struggles. Despite the money issues, he continues to spoil Madelein with gifts and fund her lavish lifestyle. Some of them include paying for her apartment and buying her a dog. Some viewers also think that money may become the biggest problem for the couple due to their unhealthy lifestyle.
- 5/2/2024
- by Michael Malley
- TV Shows Ace
The musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her just began performances in Chicago and we have first look photos from the first preview!
The beloved 1992 movie, starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, is being turned into a stage musical with plans for a Broadway run in the near future.
Broadway favorites Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are leading the Chicago production as Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp alongside Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville and Michelle Williams as Viola Van Horn.
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies…until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious...
The beloved 1992 movie, starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, is being turned into a stage musical with plans for a Broadway run in the near future.
Broadway favorites Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are leading the Chicago production as Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp alongside Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville and Michelle Williams as Viola Van Horn.
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies…until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious...
- 5/1/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Roger Corman's 1960 feature films "House of Usher" was the first film in a long series of Edgar Allan Poe-based movies at American International Pictures. From 1960 to 1964, Corman directed eight Poe films, with all but one of them starring Vincent Price. After "House of Usher," Corman made "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," the anthology film "Tales of Terror," "The Raven," "The Haunted Palace," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Tomb of Ligeia." Technically, 1963's "The Haunted Palace" isn't a Poe movie. It was named after Poe's 1893 poem but was in fact based on the 1927 short novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft. Poe, it seems, was a bigger marquee name than Lovecraft, so the latter author's story was merely folded into Corman's short-lived but well-remembered Poe subgenre.
Fans of gothic horror would do well to marathon all eight movies. They're all...
Fans of gothic horror would do well to marathon all eight movies. They're all...
- 11/28/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The final episode of Lessons In Chemistry Season 1 tied up the loose ends of Elizabeth Zott's near future while giving us closure on the past.
With some interesting twists and turns, the mystery of Calvin's past was solved, and the roadmap for Elizabeth's future was laid out.
The stories woven throughout Lessons In Chemistry have been an exciting mix of past and present, creating the blueprint for Elizabeth's life as we see it.
In the miniseries finale, Elizabeth and Madeline finally find all the pieces to the puzzle, but the payoff isn't as sweet as they'd expected.
Understanding the loose ends of Calvin's life, even those he never understood himself, is bittersweet for Elizabeth and Madeline.
Having all the available knowledge may have been the end goal, but letting go of the search for information was more arduous than either cared to admit.
In the early moments of Lessons In Chemistry...
With some interesting twists and turns, the mystery of Calvin's past was solved, and the roadmap for Elizabeth's future was laid out.
The stories woven throughout Lessons In Chemistry have been an exciting mix of past and present, creating the blueprint for Elizabeth's life as we see it.
In the miniseries finale, Elizabeth and Madeline finally find all the pieces to the puzzle, but the payoff isn't as sweet as they'd expected.
Understanding the loose ends of Calvin's life, even those he never understood himself, is bittersweet for Elizabeth and Madeline.
Having all the available knowledge may have been the end goal, but letting go of the search for information was more arduous than either cared to admit.
In the early moments of Lessons In Chemistry...
- 11/24/2023
- by Cher Thompson
- TVfanatic
While it has focused primarily on female relationships from the eyes of Elizabeth Zott, Lessons In Chemistry Season 1 Episode 7, "Book Of Calvin" changes things up.
Focusing on Calvin Evans in a close-up, intimate way, we finally learn the backstory of Madeline's father, the tale Elizabeth has yearned to know for years.
Though we've heard from Calvin Evans occasionally since his untimely death on Lessons In Chemistry Season 1 Episode 2, he's been sparse.
Called in hallucinations and flashbacks, the series has allowed Calvin to take a backseat but finally answered nearly all the lingering questions the viewers and the Zott family had about him.
We learn about Calvin's troubling past, his introduction to chemistry, and the depth of his feelings about Elizabeth in one of the most interesting ways possible.
Reverend Wakely, who we learn is named Curtis, ties into Calvin's past and present, handing us a missing piece to the...
Focusing on Calvin Evans in a close-up, intimate way, we finally learn the backstory of Madeline's father, the tale Elizabeth has yearned to know for years.
Though we've heard from Calvin Evans occasionally since his untimely death on Lessons In Chemistry Season 1 Episode 2, he's been sparse.
Called in hallucinations and flashbacks, the series has allowed Calvin to take a backseat but finally answered nearly all the lingering questions the viewers and the Zott family had about him.
We learn about Calvin's troubling past, his introduction to chemistry, and the depth of his feelings about Elizabeth in one of the most interesting ways possible.
Reverend Wakely, who we learn is named Curtis, ties into Calvin's past and present, handing us a missing piece to the...
- 11/17/2023
- by Cher Thompson
- TVfanatic
Steven Moffat has penned Douglas Is Cancelled, his first comedy series in two decades. More details within:
Before Steven Moffat became known for writing some of the greatest episodes of Doctor Who, like The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl In The Fireplace, Blink, Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead and then showrunning the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi eras, he was a prolific comedy writer.
His first series, Press Gang, was a huge success and he followed it up by drawing on his own divorce for the fantastic, farcical Joking Apart. Though school sitcom Chalk was a misfire, he quickly went on to his his greatest sitcom success when he wrote Coupling, a tightly plotted ensemble sitcom that included one episode with half the dialogue in Hebrew and another in split screen, with several plots taking place simultaneously.
Since then, Doctor Who aside, he wrote a brilliant,...
Before Steven Moffat became known for writing some of the greatest episodes of Doctor Who, like The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl In The Fireplace, Blink, Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead and then showrunning the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi eras, he was a prolific comedy writer.
His first series, Press Gang, was a huge success and he followed it up by drawing on his own divorce for the fantastic, farcical Joking Apart. Though school sitcom Chalk was a misfire, he quickly went on to his his greatest sitcom success when he wrote Coupling, a tightly plotted ensemble sitcom that included one episode with half the dialogue in Hebrew and another in split screen, with several plots taking place simultaneously.
Since then, Doctor Who aside, he wrote a brilliant,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
“Guardians of the Galaxy” star Karen Gillan is set to star alongside “Downton Abbey’s” Hugh Bonneville in a new dramedy from Steven Moffat about cancel culture, Variety can reveal.
“Douglas Is Cancelled” will see Hugh Bonneville play a middle aged and widely-respected news anchor called Douglas Bellowes while Gillan stars as his canny sidekick Madeline.
Douglas lives a perfect life. He enjoys his privileged status as national treasure and host of current affairs show “Live at Six” while off-air he shares a harmonious home with wife Sheila, a newspaper editor.
But their world is turned upside down when, at a family wedding, he’s overheard making an “ill-advised joke.” As a guest threatens to expose Douglas on social media the rumor mill goes into overdrive and sparks off a digital storm that quickly upends his life and career. With her 2 million social media followers, tech-savvy co-anchor Madeline could throw...
“Douglas Is Cancelled” will see Hugh Bonneville play a middle aged and widely-respected news anchor called Douglas Bellowes while Gillan stars as his canny sidekick Madeline.
Douglas lives a perfect life. He enjoys his privileged status as national treasure and host of current affairs show “Live at Six” while off-air he shares a harmonious home with wife Sheila, a newspaper editor.
But their world is turned upside down when, at a family wedding, he’s overheard making an “ill-advised joke.” As a guest threatens to expose Douglas on social media the rumor mill goes into overdrive and sparks off a digital storm that quickly upends his life and career. With her 2 million social media followers, tech-savvy co-anchor Madeline could throw...
- 11/17/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to big romantic gestures, Lucas Bouchard is a pro. But he doesn’t need to pull out all the stops in order to impress his fiancée Elizabeth, as she gently reminds him in the latest episode of When Calls the Heart Season 10, “Life Is But a Dream.” Plus, Rosemary and Lee confront the realities of parenthood and Bill makes a decision that could lead to a deeper relationship with Madeline.
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for When Calls the Heart Season 10 Episode 5.]
Rosemary and Lee adjust to life as parents
Rosemary (Pascale Hutton) has had her baby. Now, she and Lee (Kavan Smith) are adjusting to life as parents. Their little one is three weeks old (and she still doesn’t have a name!) and the couple’s life is a constant cycle of diapers, feedings, and naps. They’re exhausted and the house is a mess, so when Elizabeth (Erin Krakow), Molly...
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for When Calls the Heart Season 10 Episode 5.]
Rosemary and Lee adjust to life as parents
Rosemary (Pascale Hutton) has had her baby. Now, she and Lee (Kavan Smith) are adjusting to life as parents. Their little one is three weeks old (and she still doesn’t have a name!) and the couple’s life is a constant cycle of diapers, feedings, and naps. They’re exhausted and the house is a mess, so when Elizabeth (Erin Krakow), Molly...
- 8/28/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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